Sentence examples for minds round from inspiring English sources

The bosses, who had been used to meeting output quotas, had to wrap their minds round concepts such as the cost of capital, free cash flow and shareholder value.

My children Holly and Sam and I are getting our minds round the fact that we will be on the inaugural commercial flight in 2014.Our mission is to transform access to space for the benefit of life on Earth.

He continues: "The dynamic of the movie is in this show: that intense evil and darkness, brought to a comical extreme, mixed with the world of these innocent people who literally cannot get their minds round the possibility of the evil that is around them.

On the other hand I cannot get my mind round the idea of oikophobia.

The easiest way to get one's mind round this extraordinarily complex world is to divide it into two categories: tax havens for individuals; and tax havens for companies.

"Swedish nationals will have a certain credibility when weighing up works of Swedish literature, but what group could ever really get its mind round the infinitely varied work of scores of different traditions?

It cites an unnamed "military expert" as warning: "Rationalising such a complex airspace is not possible – like getting your mind round a Rubik's Cube that moves around at Mach 1.5, then adding a dozen more.

The writer AS Byatt also thinks of bookshops when she hears the terms fiction and nonfiction, saying she can't quite get her mind round "what these words might mean except as shelf-descriptions in bookstores and libraries".

Bush's foreign and security team is almost entirely a product of Cold War structures and circumscribed by Cold War attitudes (which is not true of the President himself, who was never interested enough in foreign policy; if he can get his mind round the rest of the world, he could well be more of a free-thinker than many of his staff).

He has chilled out in front of the television, walked his dog, Maggie, near his home in not-far-away Oxshott, limbered up on the court and got his mind round what is the toughest challenge at these championships, especially now that the champion, Roger Federer, has disappeared in a cloud of self-pity.

Comedy ensues as Red Son Superman completely fails to get his Kryptonian mind round American social norms, and has to be ticked off by his US counterpart for injudicious use of the old x-ray vision and repeated attempts to have Lex Luthor exiled to Siberia.